Alabama

South Alabama has a No. 12 national ranking this week in the USA Today/NFCA Top 25 poll, but the Jaguars have a No. 7 ranking in the current NCAA Division I RPI rankings. (Photo by Scott Donaldson, courtesy of South Alabama)

MOBILE, Alabama -- The South Alabama softball team is achieved the program's highest Top 25 ranking ever on Tuesday -- one spot better than last week -- when the USA Today/National Fastpitch Coaches Association Top 25 ranked the Jaguars at No. 12.

But the Jags have an even higher ranking in the NCAA softball RPI rankings, where South Alabama holds the No. 7 ranking among NCAA Division I teams.

The Jags, 25-3, have played a number of teams currently or previously ranked in the Top 25 this season. That list includes a 3-2 win over Georgia, the No. 13-ranked team in the USA Today/NFCA poll that holds the No. 1 ranking in the RPI.

Alabama is No. 2 in the RPI rankings; the Crimson Tide will host South Alabama in a 6 p.m. game in Tuscaloosa on April 2.

The Jags are the top-rated Sun Belt Conference team in the RPI rankings. Here are the complete rankings of the Sun belt team:

7. South Alabama

20 Louisiana-Lafayette

67 Western Kentucky

84 Troy

96 Texas State

97 Georgia State

108 Texas-Arlington

157 Louisiana-Monroe

While Alabama and South Alabama are the top teams in the RPI rankings from the state of Alabama, others are also included. A total of 293 teams play NCAA Division I softball. Here are those rankings of Alabama teams: